British, Canadian and American forces took ... However, he soon realised being a gilder pilot was "an elite, like the Commandos". "We were not toughies and they made us toughies – I became ...

Former Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer, who served as a commando in Afghanistan ... Operation Telic, as the British deployment was known, is the biggest since WW2 and consisted of 46,000 troops ...

He was among thousands of soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force who fought ... to renew an assault on German troops. During WW2, pipers were used by the 51st Highland Division at the start ...

[AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth] In order to sell the criminal sanctions to the public, US President Bill Clinton, British Prime ... dropped on Japan in World War II—including half a million ...

Commandos: Origins is set after 1940 during the WW2 era and it offers three difficulties. You can choose the one that suits your gameplay style. The tutorial mission was set in a British outpost in a ...

Under cover of darkness, HMS Campbeltown (I42), weighed down with explosives and daring Commandos, rammed the gates of the ... Allied morale in the uncertain days of the beginning of World War II.

In March 1942, while working in wartime London as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fleming proposed the creation of a tiny but dedicated front-line unit of ...

John Kane-Berman writes of the meteoric rise and fall of the Torch Commando in the early 1950s. Formed by World War II veterans to defend the Constitution ... South Africa into the war on the side of ...

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - A British man who had planned an attack on an air force base in northern England with a homemade bomb using explosives taken from fireworks was on Friday jailed for ...